President Bush kept us safe for for over 7 years. Now under Obama we have had 2 major terrorist attacks. It is obvious that Obama is a failed president. Our church is writng to senaters Hutchinson and Cornen (sp) to ask that Obama be removed form office as a clear and present danger to our country

8:42 pm December 27, 2009

Hegelian Dialectic wrote:

Wow what a surprise.....Now we must submit to full body scans, get blasted with Terahertz waves, and allow our privates to be examined. Now a lot of us frequent fliers will know how you felt, Arlon, when we get the chemo, too! Naaah, of course this doesn't cause cancer, nevermind..... go back to sleep..

8:47 pm December 27, 2009

Hegelian Dialectic wrote:

The CIA needs to come up with some new plays, this is getting stale.

1:57 pm December 28, 2009

LC wrote:

I noticed they give no details on the Great Americans that bought this animal under control after his bomb just caught fire. I have always said the more rules you make the more rights get violated in the name of saftey means the terrorist win. We need to back off all this violation of our rights as we try to fly today. Americans have always done the right thing when called upon. We will stop the next 9/11 not TSA the more we change the more fear we put in our society. And now I fear for the over reaction that has been shown by my government whenever someone tries something like this. The guy tries to light his shoe and since millions possibly billions of passangers have to remove their shoes. This is rediculous actions on our governments part. Remember the flight crew put out the fire the pasengers took care of the terrorist. I am just wondering why they needed the FBI and not a coroner. I guess this guy was lucky myself and a half of dozen of my buddies or other great Americans werent on that flight because he would need a coroner. You do not threaten a man and his family in America! that is grounds to disconnect his mind from his body. Stop violating our rights stop over reacting to everything and most of all TSA needs to back off a bit it is like living under Germany SS to fly today.

2:04 pm December 28, 2009

ersatz wrote:

problem ,reaction, solution.he was allowed onto the plane for a reason.i think it's pretty obvious this was the case.hopefully the public will start to see thru this routine already,before it's too late.

3:30 pm December 28, 2009

zak822 wrote:

I guess Rep. King does not mind strangers seeing his daughter naked--which is the effect of full body scans done using back-scatter radiation. Most of the women I know are not keen on this idea.

Let's ask the female GOP Senators if they mind being examined in this manner.

7:39 pm December 28, 2009

Jack Lindsay wrote:

Yes, backscatter Xrays allow the whole body to be seen (gasp!). Take a peek at the people going through security at the airport. How many of them would even have a chance of exciting your prurient interest if you saw their backscatter images? If the public is uptight about it, have separate men's and women's lines that will be viewed by the appropriate sex (oh my, the screeners might be gay, though!). It would surely be a far better system than having to half undress to go through security. This way we could just walk on through. I've been through these scanners in other countries and they're way less hassle than the hassle we go through here.

8:34 am December 29, 2009

Brian wrote:

Cindi, how quickly we forgot. Bush had TWO major terrorism attacks on his watch; 9/11 and Anthrax mailings (but you don't remember that, do you?). Not to mention the sniper attacks and more...you're obviously a blind partisan who worships at the altar of the almighty Rush. And don't think I missed how you conveniently used "seven years" instead of the full eight. Bush & Co. were WARNED by the Clinton Admin to pay more attention to terrorism, and to bin Laden specifically.

10:27 am December 29, 2009

Tom D wrote:

Why don't we just have Democrats board one airline, we'll call it Left Winger Airlines and Republicans board another, called Ring Winger Airline. Left Wing Air won't have any checks before boarding so no will have to worry about privacy issues. And Right Wing Air will have all the checks and full body scans available. See what happens.

1:55 pm December 29, 2009

Anonymous wrote:

Our church is writng to senaters Hutchinson and Cornen (sp) to ask that Obama be removed form office as a clear and present danger to our country

What the H-E-L-L is your church doing sticking its nose in politics Sunshine?

Next you’re going to write to your representatives demanding Intelligent Design be taught in schools.

Keep your grubby hypocritical Christian meat-hooks off our nations politics. The United States is NOT a Theocracy

I guess Rep. King does not mind strangers seeing his daughter naked–which is the effect of full body scans done using back-scatter radiation.

Oh great…we get these machines and the internet is going to be filled with full body scans of famous celebrities.

Well if everyone has to be seen naked, then does that mean the U.S. might shed it’s puritanical views on nudity…nah…we have Christian zealot hypocrites in our country.

3:28 pm December 29, 2009

Anonymous wrote:

@tomd: seeing as it is GOP based foreign policy which most all terrorists have cited as the reason behind their attacks, I am pretty sure that all attacks would take place on your right winger airline. Funny reality: foreign terrorists attack right wing symbols. domestic terrorists attack left wing symbols.

I'm from the Government. The full body scan is not harmful. It will not damage tissue. It will not cause cancer. The operators of such will not die premature deaths. Trust me.

3:07 am December 31, 2009

Bat Fastard wrote:

Watch the number of people willing to fly drastically decrease if these machines are widely implemented. I will not fly if I have to be full body scanned.

10:05 am December 31, 2009

Anonymous wrote:

Watch the number of people willing to fly drastically decrease if these machines are widely implemented. I will not fly if I have to be full body scanned.

While they may be idealistic, we all know that's probably not going to be the case. Sure you may have a month where people 'boycott'.

The airlines will offer incentives for the first few months.

The holidays will come around and people will want to travel

People will still be required to travel for their jobs.

It'll still be cheaper and faster than driving.

After all this is America…we bend over and take it like no other :-)

10:06 am December 31, 2009

Anonymous wrote:

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1:58 pm December 31, 2009

No Choice wrote:

We have no choice as long as these people are out ther our safety has to be the number one priority. I agree it is a violation to those of us who are not terrorists but the risk is too great not to take these measures. Anyone saying they will refuse to fly is an idiot. Flying is still the fastest way of travel and in our busy world time cost money and that is a fact that real business people understand and will not willingly throw to the way side.

Keep it real, this will happen and we will acceppt it because it is for our own safety and the beat will go on.

1:34 pm January 4, 2010

Anonymous wrote:

Keep it real, this will happen and we will acceppt it because it is for our own safety and the beat will go on.

Pretty much hit the nail on the head. Our tax dollars will be used to lower our quality of life and our national leaders will treat us no better than our enemies.

Do you want to live in a country where everyone is a potential enemy of the state?

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